Various evidences, be it anecdotal or hard numbers, has proved that NVIDIA RTX 50 series’ stock situation has been terrible (AMD meanwhile enjoyed a decent GPU launch with healthy number of shipments for its RX 9070 series, so far). However, in a recent GDC presentation, the GPU giant claims it made double the shipments for the RTX 50 cards over their predecessors – but there’s a catch.
More NVIDIA RTX 50 GPUs Shipped?
Technically speaking, NVIDIA didn’t lie about the shipment volumes – in the first five weeks of launch, the RTX 50 cards do get shipped twice the amount over RTX 40 equivalents. But here’s the problem: the “RTX 40 Series” in the chart above should’ve been labeled as “RTX 4090”, as that was the sole model launched by that point; meanwhile, NVIDIA has already launched four models (ignoring the China-exclusive RTX 5090 D) in the same period in the form of RTX 5090, RTX 5080, RTX 5070 Ti, and RTX 5070.
Flagship GPUs like the RTX 4090 usually don’t get produced in big numbers, as the silicon is huge and the market for $1,000+ GPUs simply isn’t large to begin with. So when the RTX 4090 alone is already half of RTX 50’s shipment numbers five weeks into launch is quite telling of the stock situation right now, on top of the ridiculously high MSRPs and endless scalping currently ravaging the market.
NVIDIA reassures that it is currently working on improving the stock situation to keep prices under control – but aside from the lack of stock, the RTX 50 series is also currently plagued by various issues, including sporadic incidents relating to the 12V-2×6 connector and defective dies that feature missing ROPs, causing performance deficits.
Source: PCMag
Pokdepinion: That’s one heck of a skewed representation of stock situation.
